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BUNDS ON SILVER
Carlisle's Report Criticized
by the Congressman
From Nevada.
WITHDRAWALS OF GOLD.
Not Caused Solely by the Lack
of Confidence in Money in
Circulation.
IMPORTS EXCEED EXPORTS.
Remedy for the Turning of Trade in
Favor of the United
States.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 17.— Francis
G. New-lands, the Representative of the
silver party in the House, speaking of Sec
retary Carlisle's report, says:
"Mr. Carlisle argues upon the assump
tion that the withdrawals of gold from the
treasury have been caused by lack of con
fidence in the character of our ruoney and
that hence it is necessary to 'retire all
greenbacks and treasury notes, which by
the custom of the Treasury Department
have been redeemed oil presentation in
gold.
"The same argument would of course ap
ply to the silver certificate, and we are
obliged, thereiore, to meet a possible de-
Ttl'and from this administration that about
one-half of our present volume of money
should be retired. Such a contraction
would, of course, be destructive beyond
the power of imagination to depict. Mr.
Carlisle is wrong in his assumption. The
withdrawals of gold have been caused by
the export of gold, and this exists simply
because our import of goods exceed our
experts. The gold must be paid. If it
were not paid from the treasury the banks
would have to supply it. Sucli a strain
thrown upon tne banks would have pro
duced a universal panic.
•'fiie vital question is, how can the
balance of trade be turned in our favor?
My answer is by diminishing the'amount
of our imports and by increasing the
amount of our exports. To make the im
ports less the tariff wall should be raised
higher. Toincreaso tne value and amount
of our exports, which consist principally
of natural products, such as wheat, cot
ton, wool, beef, etc., produced by silver
standard countries in competition with us,
it is necessary to increase the value of
every ounce of silver. This can only lie
done by increasing the use of silver, and to
the extent that such increased use aug
ments the value of silver to that extent it
will increase the value of our exportable
products, and only to turn the trade in our
favor.
"As to the perils of contraction caused
by the withdrawal of greenbacks and
treasury notes, Mr. Carlisle proposes that
increased facilities for issuing notes should
be given to the National banks. He for-
gets that these are redeemable in gold, and
that in hard tinier they will prove as great
a scourge to the banks as they have been
to the treasury.
"The banks will have enough to do to
meet in trying times the demands of de-
positors without adding a liability to bill
holders. What we need is more primary
money, not credit money — money trood for
redemption, not so-calicd money neces
sary to be redeemed and worthless for re
demption." '
O.V SENJLTE COMMITTEES.
Adoption of the Report of licpublicuns in
Caucus.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 17.— The
Republicans of the Senate in caucus this
afternoon adopted the report of the com
mittee appointed to till the vacancies in
the Senate committees. There was not a
dissenting vote 1 , although Chairmen Mor
rill of Finance, Frye of Commerce and
Hoar of Judiciary thought it unwise to en
large the committees over which they pre
side.
There are sixty committees in the Sen
ate. Of these, forty-three have been given
to Republicans, six to Populists and eleven
to Democrats. Each vacancy was tilled,
seven places being assigned to some Sena
tors and six to some others, with the un
derstanding that should Utah send two
Republican Senators, and should a Repub
lican be admitted from Delaware, places
could then be made for these Senators by
resignation on the part of the Senators
having an excess of assignments.
The committee agreed on every matter
that came before it but the one proposi
tion, to wit: To charge the name of the
select committee to inquire into all claims
of citizens of the United States against the
Government of Nicaragua, to "select com
mittee on the Nicaragua canal and to in
quire into claims of citizens of the United
States against the Government of Nica
ragua." They also proposed to increase
the committee from live to seven and give
the minority the chairmanship and the
Republicans four members.
This wouid make Senator Morgan chair
man and throw to this committee all that
portion of the work of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee relating to the canal here
tofore considered by that committee. This
matter will be determined at the caucus to
be held to-morrow immediately after the
Benate adjourns.
On the motion of V. Lodge, the chair
man of the committee, Mitchell, was in
structed to confer witii Gurman, chairman
of the Democratic committee, with a view
of securing the immediate reorganization
of the Committee on Foreign Relations,
and if this is done the reorganization of
the others will probably await the holiday
recess.
Kinmid Exonerated.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 17.-George
F. Kincaid, formerly of this city, but
lately a resident of San Francisco, who
had been indicted for alleged embezzle
ment, was to-day exonerated, the indict
ment haying been dismissed by the United
States District Attorney.
SECUltlXii THE BONUS.
Union I'aeiflr. Reornanizer.t Said to lie
Gaining Control.
NEW YORK, N. V.. Dec. 17.— A special
meeting of the Union Pacific reorganiza
tion committee was heid this morning.
The depositaries reported a very consider
able and constant increase both in the for
eign and home deposits, and there appears
nu\v no longer to be any doubt that a ma
jority of the rir?t mortgage bonds will
shortly be under the control of the com
mittee; in fact, it is understood that the
committee already holds a majority of
what is considered the most important di
vision of the system.
After the meeting a member of the com
mittee said, informally, that the privilege
to bondholders to come into the reorgani
zation, instead of having their bonds paid
off, is considered so very valuable that
even with the penalty which it is the inten
tion to impose after January 1, the inclina
tion within the committee appears to be
not to extend this privilege to minority
bondholders for any length of time.
HURT) EII OK STILL WELL.
Interesting Testimony Givn at the Trial
of Dr. Hearne.
BOWLING GREEN, Mo., Dec. 17.—
Court opened this morning in the Hearne
trial with Mrs. R. H. Stillwell on the
witness-stand. She testified that, although
Mrs. Amos Stillwell claimed to be sick a
great deal for some time before the mur
der, she was always apparently well when
Dr. Hearne was absent.
"When the doctor came in she would im
mediately go into a spell, and everybody
would leave the room except she and the
doctor. Witness again recited the gown
incident, saying that the gown Mrs. Still
well wore on the morning of the murder
had the appearance of never having been
worn in bed and that it was not the char
acter of the gown Mrs. Amos Stilhvell
usually wore. She also stated that, al
though Mrs. Stilhvell claimed to be in a
stunor on the morning of the murder, she
told witness that after that she was con
scious of everytning that went on.
RECEIVES AXOTHER GIFT.
Chicago University J r avorcd by Mrs. T.
K. W. Shinier.
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 17.— The Chicago
University, which was on last Saturday
made the recipient of a $1,003,000 gift by
Miss Helen Culver of Chicago, was this
afternoon favored by a donation of prop
erty and money amounting to about $250,
--000. The giver in this instance is Mrs. T.
K. W. Shinier, owner and principal of the
Mount Carroll Female Seminary of Mount
Carroll, 111. Mrs. Shinier writes President
Harper that she gives to the university
four buildings, comprising the seminary,
together with twenty-live 'acres of ground.
It is her desire that the seminary be run
as a girls' training school for tne uni
versity, and to this end she will endow it
with <150,000 and probably $200,000. Mount
Carroll is 123 miles directly west of Chi
cago.
AN EXPLOSION AT SEA,
Total Loss of the German Ship
Athena With a Cargo of
Naphtha.
The Captain and Thirteen of the
Crew Perished in the
Disaster.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 17.— During
a heavy gale last Sunday morning, 319 miles
| off Cape May, N. .T,, the German ship
; Athena. Captain Heak; which left New
| York December 10 for London with a
j cargo of naphtha, took fire, and while the
crew were being transferred to the British
; ship Tafna, from Marabella for this port,
the oil exploded, blowing the Athena out
of the water.
The captain and thirteen of the crew
were eit er killed by the explosion or
drowned. The first and second mates and
fourteen of the crew had betn transferred
to the Tafna before the explosion took
place and were saved.
The disaster took place in longitude 36.46
north and latitude 68.50 west and when
the Tafna left the place the wreckage from
the ship was drifting southeast.
The survivors are: Alexander Fran
zelius, first mate; John Freez, second
mate; William Mailer, carpenter; John
Rudsit, seaman; Martin Penneller, sea
man; George Schroeder, seaman.
The lost are: Captain G. Heak of Bre
men, G. Henke, cook; Fritz Nehring,
Hans Koenig, John Svenspn, John Ander-
sen, Johan Yogler, H. Wahlen, Charles
Kohnler, Hans Ismussen, cabin boy; Wil
helm Hens, cabin boy; Bernard Peck
stein, second carpenter; Herman Halset,
saihnaker; — — Lundman.
The Athena was loaded with 9000 barrels
!of naphtha at WiUiamsborg, L. I. The
i cargo was valued at $45,000, and the con
signees were Theodore Ruger <fc Co. of New
: York. The Athena sailed on December 10
i for London.
Cuban lielligerency.
NBW Y<>RK, N\ V., Dec. 17.— Speaking
of the hope of Cuban belligerency beine
recognized by the United States Hevalion
Rubens, attorney at "Washington for the
Cuban junta, said that as soon as such
action was taken it would be easy to issue
bonds and raise money.
One syndicate alone had offered to sup
ply $15,600,000. All the preparations had
been made to s°cure a cruiser to prey
upon Spanish commerce. The vessel was
for sale and the owner had agreed to take
his pay in Cuban bonds as soon as they
could be issued.
Jiomhs for Millionaires.
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 17.— This morn
ing's developments in the Armour bomb
sensation indicate that Owens, the man
who is under arrest charged with mailing
the explosives, is the party who within the
last year has sent three letters to Mr. Ar
mour with the idea of extorting money.
Owens maintains his innocence, however.
Arrival of Ijti Champagne.
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 17—2:30 a. m.—
The steamer La Champaene, two days
overdue, is passing Sanay Hook, bound in.
Xot 1o lie Influenced.
BERLIN, Germany, Dec. 17. — The
Cologne Gazette claims to have re
ceived an official communication stat
ing that additional guardboats hav
ing been admitted into the Dar
danelles, the powers composing the
Triple Alliance have concluded their steps
in the direction of restoring order in Asia
Minor, and must refuse to be influenced by
the efforts of Great Jirita'n to pledge the
Triple Alliance in respect to Armenian re
forms.
J:nrin<j at Xcir Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 17.— Seven fur
longs, J. W. Cook won, Nicolina second, Baldur
third, Time, 1:28&
One and an eighth miles, selling, Mandolina
won, Major McLaughlin second, Marion third.
Time. 1:56.
Fifteen-sixteenth! of a mile, handicap, Sau
turiie won, Gladiola second, Mike Kelly third
Time, 1 :30>.£.
One mile and twenty yards, Leo Lake won,
Jake Zimmerman second, Roosevelt third.
Time, 1:42&
Oae mile and seventy yard?, Tasco won, Vida
second, Adam Johnson third. Time, I:47}^.
I'hfpnix Race Meeting.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 17. — Two-year-old
trotting race, one mile, Stanley P won, Charlie
W second, Delle N'ette distanced. Time,
'2::iO>,.
One mile, trotting and pacing, PrincieG won,
Mnmbrino second, (iarnll third. Time, 2:29J£.
Quarter of a mile dash, running, Mollu:
Dailey won, Trixy B second, F F third. Time,
The condition of the track was very good ;
the attendance, 700.
For a Second Fight.
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 17.-Joe Yen
dig, on behalf of Dan Stuart, it is said, will
offer a purse of ?4000 for a finish fight be
tween "Texas Bright Eyes" and Joe Wol
cott, to tako place at Stuart's ristic carni
val, near El Paso, Tex., on February 14.
Tom O'Rourke, manager for Woicott, is
willing to make the match, and details
will probably be arranged soon.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1895.
STREETCARS STOPPED
Riot and Destruction Mark
the Opening of a Big
Strike.
WORK OF SYMPATHIZERS
Philadelphia's Mayor Compelled
to Issue a Proclamation
to Citizens.
oi;e hundred arrests made.
Only One Railway Line Operating in
the City of Brotherly
Love.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 17.— Riot
and destruction marked the opening day
of the great strike of the streetcar em
ployes of the Union Traction Company.
Aided by the mischievous, lawless ele
ment, the strikers to-day succeeded in com
pletely tying up the lines of the Union
Traction Company, and to-night, with the
exception of the one line not control-led by
the company not involved in the strike,
not a streetcar wheel is turning in Phila
delphia.
To the credit of the strikers it may be
said that the disorders were created by too
ardent sympathizers and mischievous boys.
About 300 cars were badly wrecked.
This afternoon the Mayor issued a pioc
lamation calling upon all good citizens to
preserve the peace and askine them to
refrain from gathering in crowds on the
streets. He further added that violence
and riot would be met with force, and that
the peace of the city will be preserved at
all hazards.
The suddenness of the outbreak to-day
seemed to take the police by surprise, and
fora time cars were wrecked with impunity
in the very heart of the retail .shopping dis-
trict. Then the reserve patrolmen were
massed at every threatened point, and to
night every policeman in the city is on
duty.
The company made no attempt to run
cars to-night, Dut under police protection
they will start the Market-street branch of
their line to-morrow morning and trouble
is sure to follow. Despite > the stone
throwing only one person was seriously
hurt, a policeman, who had his club taken
away from him by the crowd and was
beaten into insensibility and to-night is in
the hospital suffering from concussion of
the brain.
The police made about 100 arrests and
all the rioters were held under heavy bail.
The principal streets are thronged with
people to-night, but there was no disturb
ance up to a late hour.
FEDERATION OF LABOR.
Boycott on the Products of
the American Tobacco
Company.
Resolution That Party Politics Have
No Place in the Present
Convention.
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 17.-The
American Federation of Labor convention
was resumed this morning. Delegate
Lannon of the committee on labels and
boycotts reported favorably on the boycott
of the products of the American Tobacco
Company.
Delegate Barnes' resolution of yesterday
"that it is clearly the duty of union
workingraen to organize and maintain a
political party devoted exclusively to their
own interests as to organization in trade
and labor unions," was taken up.
Delegate O'Sullivan moved the adoption
of the following substitute resolution:
Resolved, That this convention declares that
party polities, whether Democratic, Republi
can, Socialistic, Populistic or any other, should
have no place in the Federation of Labor.
This was carried by a vote of 1460 to 158.
Delegate E. H. Diehl introduced a reso
lution stating that the officials in the
Treasury Department were openly and
flagrantly permitting the violation of the
eight-hour law in Government work. The
resolution which was adopted directs that
charges be preferred against the Secretary
of the Treasury.
A recess was taken until 1:30 p. m., after
which the convention went into executive
session to discuss the report of the com
mittee on grievances.
The question of the election of two fra
ternal delegations to the British Trades
Congress, to be held September 3, 1896, re
sulted in the selection of John Mcßride,
the retiring president, and Adolph Straus
ser of Buffalo, ex-president of the Interna
tional Cigar-makers' Union.
After congratulatozy resolutions on the
presidency o5 ex-President Mcßride had
been adopted the convention adjourned
sine die.
HAMILTOS'S AjnVAJL BANQUET.
Members of the Alumni of the College
Held a Reunion.
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Dec. 17. — The
Alumni Association of Hamilton College
held its annual banquet and reunion at the
Midland Hotel, this city, to-night. About
twenty-live graduates of this famous old
school were present and sat down to an
elaborate menu. After the banquet infor
mal addresses were made, the principal
one bein<i that of Rev. M. Wolsey Stryker,
D.D., LLD., president of Hf.milton* Col
lege. Others who spoke wWe Rev. H. D.
Jenkins, D.D., and Clarence S. Palmer of
this city; Rev. C. C. Heminway, D.D..
Glasgow, Mo. ; Charming J. Brown, clerk
of the Supreme Court, Topeka, Kas., and
Major 0. M. Wilson, Kansas City, Kas.
Rev. Dr. Stryker's remarks were particu
larly happy, abounding in the brilliant and
sententious passages for which he is fam
ous wherever known, and they proved him
to have been a worthy successor of the late
Professor Swing in the old Fourth Church
of Chicago.
AN ATE WITH A MEMORY.
Makes Things Lively for Men Who Hare
Offended Him.
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 17.— H. H.
Cordis, who has a saloon at pier 3, Hamil
ton ferry, Brooklyn, owns an ape named
Jack. Robert Allison, a driver for the
Knickerbocker Ice Company, gave the ape
a chunk of ice one day last summer. The
ape danced about howling with pain, but
held on to the ice.
Yesterday when Allison went into the
saloon with a cake of ice the animal was
perched upon the cage about three feet
from the beer box. Allison turned his
back to arrange the ice cakes in* the
refrigerator, when Jack sprang upon his
shoiuder with a cry of anger. Before
Allison knew what was the matter Jack
had dug his claws into his neck and
fastened his teeth in his rLht ear. The
barkeeper pulled the ape from Allison's
back, Jack still lighting and trying to tear
Allison's ear off with his teeth. While
Allison is in no immediate danger of death,
his wounds are of a character that will be
slow in healing, and the physician is afraid
of blood poisoning.
Jack some time ago took a dislike to a
sailor who gave him a chew of tobacco in a
peanut, and three months after, when the
sailor returned from a tiip, having for
gotten all about the occurrence, the
animal attacked him and nearly chewed
off one hand.
Mrs. Stanford's Jewelry.
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 17.— The re
port that Mrs. Leland Stanford has de
cided to sell her jewels at auction in New
York is now said to be wholly without
foundation.
WRECKED NEAR TOWLE.
Two Sleeping Cars on a Southern Pacific
Passenger Train Roll Down an
Embankment
COLFAX, Cal., Dec. 17.— When one
mile east of Towle at 11 o'clock this morn
ing two cars— the Southern Pacific sleeper
Flores, and a tourist sleeper— attached to
west-bound passenger No. 4, which was
rounding a curve at a rate of eighteen
miles an hour, left the track and turned
completely over down an embankment.
Both cars, which were well rilled with
passenerers, were considerably wrecked,
but by a miracle all of the passengers es
caped serious injury. One or two received
slight cuts from broken glass. All trains
were delayed about eight hours.
THE CLAN-N A-GAEL ARMY
Two Companies of Irish-American
Volunteers Formed in
Chicago.
Ready to Perform Service in the Field
Against Any Foe of This
Country.
CHICAGO, 111., Dec. 17. -Two com
panies of the "Irish Volunteers," an Irish-
American army, have been formed in
Chicago. The army is an inner wheel of
the Clan-na-G;iel, the secret organization
which has been actively identified with
many revolutionary movements in behalf
of the green isle.
Each camp of the Clan-na-Gael through
out the country is now organizing one or
more companies of the new army. These
companies have been organized by camps
Henry Grattan and Robert Emmet. The
rirst numbers sixty-two men and the second
(the newer) has only nineteen men at pres
ent, but reports lifteen or more ready
to join. Camp Dr. P. 11. Croniu will have
a company ready to muster in within a
month and Camp Celtic will have one by
the Ist of February. It is expected a full
regiment ot ten companies will be raised
in Chicago.
The local companies of the Irish Volun
teers will make their first appearance in
public on March 4, the anniversary of
the death oi Robert Km met.
The man at the head of the movement
in Chicago is Patrick McGarry, a promi
nent member of the Clan-na-Gaei, and
national secretary of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians. Associated with him are John
Ryan, P. W. Dunne, Martin Dowiing and
\Y. P. Wren.
Patrick McGarry said yesterday: "Or
ganization in this city has been slow,
owing 10 the factional lights which have
existed here and the circumstances grow
ing out of the murder of Dr. Cronin,
"Although the men who had any con
nection with the notorious 'Triangle' were
repudiated and expelled by the Clan-na-
Qael, it f .ook the society some time to over
come the prejudice aroused against it at
the time of the murder and the subsequent
trials.
"Our organization differs materially
from the Hibernian Rifles, which is at
tached to the Ancient Order of Hiber
nians, and which requires its members
to be of the Catholic faith and Irish
parentage. Wniie one of our objects is to
right for Ireland, it is second to our rirsi
object — to be ready to perform service in
the field for our own country against Eng
land or any other nation."
PROHIBITION IN ALASKA
Territorial Grand Jury Inveighs
Against the Stringent
Regulations.
Liquor-Sellers Indicted Under Protest
by an Investigating Body at
Juneau.
PORT TOW2>*SEND, Wash., Dec. 17.-
The people of Alaska are divided into two
factions over the enforcement of the liquor
laws, which are intended to prohibit the
sale of intoxicants in the Territory. One
faction demands that liquors be sold in the
Territory without prohibitory restriction,
and the other, including the Government
officials, insists upon the enforcement of
the law.
At present the latter faction has the
better of it. All the saloon-keepers and
liquor-dealers were indicted by the Grand
Jury last week, in accordance with the
explicit instructions of Judge Truitt, but
append ed to the report was the following:
"We have presented youT Honor with
true bills against all the saloon-keepers
and manufacturers of intoxicating liuuors
in Juneau, Douglas Island, Sitka and Fort
Wrangle, because your Honor's clear in
structions gave us no alternative, but we
take this opportunity to say — and we
believe that in doing so we express the
sentiments of nine-tenths of the people of
Alaska— that the prohibitory law, so far as
it applies to us, is obnoxious and repug
nant alike to the principle of home rule
and the American spirit of freedom.
'Owing to the damp and rigorous cli
mate of Alaska a stimulant becomes a
necessity to those exposed to the elements.
We believe therefore that the only real,
lastine and satisfactory solution of the
liquor question is the granting of licenses
upon the payment of the usual fees; the
money derived from said fees to be util
ized in carrying out necessary improve
ments, such as organizing a good sfuiitarv
system for the prevention of diseases
caused by breathing impure air, repairing
our streets and sidewalks, etc. We feel
that though we are in Alaska we are still
in the United States, and a statement of
our needs is entitled to as much consid
eration from the National Government as
would be given to the requirements of the
District of Columaia. A licensing system
would eventually ston all smuggling,
would give all the business to American
merchants, the Government would derive
a revenue instead of having, as at present,
to maintain a revenue steamer in our
waters engaged in a fruitless attempt to
seize contrabrand goods; and lastly, all
keepers of licensed houses would assist in
bringing to justice persons known to sell
without a license/
HARRISBURG CRIME
Third Attempt to Take the
Life of Miss Ethel
Riddle.
STABBED IN THE DARK.
An Eighteen-Year-Old Girl At
tacked at the Threshold of
Her Home.
CRIME OF A JEALOUS SUITOR
Twice Before the Unknown Assassin
Had Fired Upon the Young
Woman.
ALBANY, Or., Dec. 17.— News comes
from Harrisburg that an unknown
would-be assassin attempted to murder
Miss Ethel Riddle there Saturday night.
The girl, who is about 18 years old, lived
with her uncle, George Henderson. After
supper she started to leave her home, and
as she emerged from the door she was
seized by a man in the darkness. He
stabbed her in the neck and across the
wrists. She broke away and ran scream
ing toward the house. Mrs. Henderson,
hearing her cries, ran to the door and the
assailant fled.
A physician who was called found that
the girl's wounds were not dangerous, the
gash in her neck having missed an artery.
Twice before, recently. Miss Riddle has
been the victim of attempted assassin
ation, having been tired upon in the
darkness. Her stories concerning the at
tacks were scarcely believed by her rela
tives, who thought she was frightened at
promiscuous shooting in the neighbor
hood. The young girl's assailant was not
recognized in the darkness, and the only
theory as to the cause of the attempted
murder is that the deed was prompted by
the jealousy of a rejected suitor.
DIVORCED AT SAN JOSE
Hettie S. Bopp Secures a Separa
tion on the Grounds of
Cruelty.
All Claims Against Her Ex-Husband
Settled by a Payment of
Cash.
SAX JOSE, Cal., Dec. 17.— Hettie S.
Bopp was granted a divorce from diaries
E. Bopp by Jud«e Lorigan to-day on the
ground of extreme cruelty, and awarded
$350 counsel fees and $3<\>o cash in lieu of
any further claim, upon the defendant.
Mrs. Bopp was a widow with two chil
dren at the time of her marriage in 1884.
Within a month Bopp began to treat his
wife cruelly anc objected to her children
coming to see her. A few months ago,
she alleges, he accused her of stealing $G0
from him arid threatened to kill her and
drove her from the house.
Bopp is a wealthy rancher and resides
near the Infirmary. .
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LIFTISG A.X IXDEBTEDNESS.
Liberal Subscriptions to the Young Men's
Christian Association.
SAN JOSE, Cal., Dec. 17.— At a meet
ing held last night for the purpose of de
vising means for raising an indebtedness
of $20,000 on the Young Men's Christian
Association building, the business men's
committee having the matter in charge
reported that $4750 had been subscribed
and that there was every prospect of rais
ing the necessary amount to lift the in
debtedness by the first of the year.
Shipments to the East.
SAN JOSE, Cal., Dec. 17.— The over
land shipments from this city last week
amounted to f,161,530 pounds. Dried
prunes head the list with 529,290 pounds.
Other shipments are: Canned goods, 161,
--020 pounds; wine and brandy, 176,360;
dried peaches, 114,760; dried apricots,
81.520; garden seed, 9560; beans, 32,800;
almonds, 23,000. The local shipments on
the narrow gauge amounted to 832,940
pounds. •
Taken Front a San Francisco Sank.
SAN JOSE, Cal., Dec. 17.— Judge Rey
nolds to-day made an order directing E.
W. Clayton, guardian of the estate of Ivan
Treadwell, one of the heirs of the Tread
well millions, to withdraw the stocks,
bonds, securities, etc., of the minor on
deposit in the Deposit Bank of San Fran
cisco and place the same in the San Jose
Safe Deposit Bank. A similar order was
issued to George Y. Bollinger, guardian
of the estate of James P. Treadwell.
lumber Company Incorporated.
SAN JOSE, Cal., Dec. 17.— Articles of
incorporation oi the Northern Pine and
Lumber Company were tiled in the County
Clerk's office to-day. The capital stock is
$50,000. The directors are: DelosO. Druf
fel, Richard T. Pierce, V. jO. Clark, F. O.
Roll and James H". Pierce. The principal
place of business is given as Santa Clara.
SHOOTISV AT VALLEJO.
Michael O' Donnell Resents a Jest Directed
A gainst Himself and His iJon.
VALLEJO, Cal., Dec. 17.— Patrick Con
nolly was shot through the left lung dur
ing an affray in the Globe saloon this
morning. The shooting was done by Mi
chael O'Donnell. a former bartender, who
took offense at a jest about feeding his
dog off a lunch-counter in the Globe sa-
Early in the evening O'Donnell was
thrown out of Colvin & Co.'s store for at
tempting to draw his pistol. Later he
quarreled with another person and pro
cured a revolver to shoot him, but made
up by shaking hands. About 1 o'clock
O'Donnell, followed by his dog. entered
the Globe saloon and there commenced to
help himself to a luncti, feeding the dog
at the same time. Several young men in
the saloon made remarks concerning
this procedure. O'Donneli drew a re
volver and started for young Connolly,
who ran and dodged under a beer-keg rack,
where O'Donneli shot him. O'Donnell
then dashed from the saloon. Late this
afternoon he was captured by officers near
Benicia.
BAKER CITY HOLD-ZP.
Masked Bandits Invade a Store Filled
With I Loungers-
BAKER CITY, Ok., Dec. 17.— The store
at the Virtue mine was visited last night
by three masked robbers and |4 taken
from the safe. The outlaws entered the
front door and the command "throw up
your hands" was given. The thirteen men
in the store did not comply, the crowd
believing a joke was being perpetrated, as
they had just been relating thrilling stories
of "bad" men and bold outlaws. Two
shots fired over their heads were sufficient
to convince them that the men meant
business and all hands went up.
Mr. Brooks, the proprietor, had about
$800 secreted outside of the safe and his
loss was consequently light. The robbers
escaped.
ALBANY MURDER TRIAL.
The fmf ane'ing of a Jury to Weigh the
Evidence Against Ycung Mont
gomery Begun.
ALBANY, Or., Dec. 17.— The trial of
Lloyd Montgomery for the murder of his
parents and McKercher at Brownsville
was begun here this afternoon by the im
paneling of a jury. The examination of
talesmen progressed slowly, owing to the
fact that they were carefully questioned as
to what they knew of the case and what
they thought of insanity as a defense for
criminals.
The prisoner continues to act as a sane
man and appears to realize the enormity
of his crime. He is defended by Judge
Whitney, who has some slight hopes of
getting young Montgomery off with life
imprisonment. The prisoner has told the
Sheriff that he expects to die for his crime.
SAN MATEO SUICIDE.
Hoys Found the Body of a Man Who Had
Taken Poison.
SAN MATEO, Cal., Dec. 18.— The body
of an unknown suicide was found to-day
by boys gathering mushrooms on Howard
Mound, near town. It was that of a man
about 60 years of age, and apparently
an intelligent, well-to-do person. Beside
the corpse lay an empty poison vial. The
man had been dead about two weeks.
The suicide wore a navy-blue suit, with
gray overcoat, white shirt, standing collar
and derby hat. He carried a silver watch
and chain — Waltham movement, No.
1287214 — and about $15 in coin was found
in his pocket. He was heavy set, weigh
ing about 180 pounds, with sandy hair,
mustache, sidewniskers and a goatee. The
only marks of identification thai could be
found were the letters "E. X.' ? in indeli
ble ink on the shirt.
FIItE AT itECOIO.
Disastrous Blaze Believed to Have Been
of Incendiary Origin.
DECOTO, Cal., Dec. 17.— The general
merchandise store of Frank Ribera was
burned at 4 o'clock this morning. The
store of W. B. King, adjoining, was saved
by a hard fight. The building was owned
by E. Salz. The barber-shop in the same
building was owned by M. Brown, who
lost all.
The fire is thought to have been incen
diary, as an attempt was made three
months ago to burn the place by saturating
it with oil. The loss is about $2000 and the
insurance $1200.
IU ED AT SANTA MONICA.
Passing of a Woman Who Lost Three
Sons in the Late War.
SANTA MONICA, Cal. 7 Dec. 17.—Eliza
beth Harris, who died at Goahen on Mon
day, will be buried here to-morrow beside
her husband. Her life was a loyal one,
she having given her three sons and an
even dozen nephews to the cause of the
Union, besides having nearly a score of
cousins on the Confederate side. Two of
her boys fought on the farm where she
was born at the battle of Opequam. At
Gettysburg one saved the Jife of a Con
federate—Colonel Fry— whom he then
ascertained to be a cousin.
KLAMATH FALLS CAPTURE.
Postal Inspector Culver Runs
Down the Topsy Grade
Bandit.
Lee Oliver Charged With the Repeated
Hold-Ups of the Ager Line
Stage.
PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 17.— A brief dis
patch received from Klamath Falls to-day
announced the capture of Lee Oliver, be
lieved to be the lone highwayman who
helyi up the Ager and Klamath Falls stage
a half-dozen times. The dispatch stated
that Postal Inspector Culver, who caused
Oliver's arrest, has been working upon the
case for several months, and that he has
secured conclusive evidence not only
against Oliver, but men employed by the
Government to handle the mails as well.
Oliver made no resistance when arrested.
Postal Inspector Munroe received a dis
patch yesterday from Inspector Culver of
Klamath Falls informing him of the ar
rest by Deputy Marshal Gordon of a man
named Lee Oliver, who is supposed to
have had something to do with the hold
up of the stage on the 13th inst.
Oliver was really arrested for the rob
bery of the 4th and Culver wired that he
had evidence enough to convict him of
that. More arrests would follow, the
telegram said.
JAIL BREAK. AT MOSCOW.
Three Burglars Cut Their Way Through
the Wall of a Prison.
MOSCOW, Idaho, Dec. 17.— Thomas
Brodie, Thomas St. Clair and John
Brownly, prisoners confined in the Connty
Jail awaiting trial for a burglary com
mitted at Genesee, Idaho, a few weeks ago,
escaped last night about 5 o'clock by
digging a hole through a two-foot brick
wall with a caseknife. Sheriff Campbell
offers a reward of $300 for their capture.
No clew has been obtained as to their
whereabouts.
The fugitives are considered the worst
gang of criminals in the country. Five
other prisoners were in the corridor of the
jail when they escaped, but made no
effort to get away.
Fit AC AS AT SAX DIEGO.
Two Officers Shot While Trying to Make
an Arrest.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Dec. 17,-Police Offi
cers John Mclnnes and W. I. Warner and
a soldier were shot and wounded about 12
o'clock last night by Frank Wilson, in the
latter^s saloon on Fifth street, between J
and K. None of the wounds are danger
ous, but the officers will be laid up for
some time. Warner narrowly escaped
death.
The officers were trying to arrest Wilson
at the time the shooting began. Wilson
held out until daylight this morning, when
be surrendered and was taken to the
County Jail.
Porpoise in Monterey Hay.
PACIFIC GROVE, Cal., Dec. 17.— A
novel sight was witnessed from Lovers
Point about 4 o'clock this afternoon, when
an immense school of porpoise passed close
in to the shore and out to sea again. The
ieapirg, struggling mass rose to the sur
face of the water about the center of the
bay, and traveled with incredible rapidity,
making a rushing sound that could be
heard above the roar of the surf tor a long
distance, leaving a long wak« equal to that
behind an ocean steamer.
Four Hears Killrxl Xear TJkiah.
UKIAH, Cal., Dec. 17.— Ex-Sheriff S.
Standley, aided by his wile and son George,
killed four large bears yesterday. The
largest one weighed 700 pounds. The
Standleys live in Sherwood Valley, eight
miles north of this city.
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